Music
Jenn Scott
If you’re listening to your favorite music, you’re likely in your happy place, too. It’s important to stay loyal to your roots.
Wednesday 19 Jun
OKG Newsletter
Topic: vinyl
Needle points
Music
Jenn Scott
If you’re listening to your favorite music, you’re likely in your happy place, too. It’s important to stay loyal to your roots.
Gander at Guthrie
The making of 'Woody at 100.'
With all the Woody Guthrie coverage in today’s Gazette to commemorate the Okie folkie’s centennial, you may wish to take a peek at the mini-documentary The Making of Woody at 100.
It details Smithsonian Folkways’ efforts at compiling the new, three-disc box set, Woody at 100, which:
• came out yesterday;
• features 57 songs in total, 21 of them previously unreleased performances and six never-before-heard; and
• includes a 154-page book with essays and art galore.
Take a gander at the label’s restoration process and behind-the-scenes work:
Hey! Read This:
• Know your Woody!
• Woody Guthrie's legacy
Matt Stansberry & the Romance — Let’s Brighten It Up
Pop
Joshua Boydston
The cover of the seven-song EP Let’s Brighten It Up is a telling one. Oklahoma City’s Matt Stansberry is midbounce, dressed in a tailored suit and black-rimmed glasses à la Elvis Costello or Buddy Holly, clutching what looks like a bright-red Les Paul guitar. Stansberry is true to form, as polished and accomplished as ever, and his new band, The Romance, adds a little pep to his step.
Lost Empires — Death and Evil Beasts
Rock
Joshua Boydston
Oklahoma is flush with Southern and hard-rock acts, but there’s a narrower selection of quality straight-ahead metal bands. Enter Lost Empires.
Happy Record Store Day Black Friday!
Break open the piggy bank, vinyl heads!
Music
Louis Fowler
While everyone with normal lives will be buying bargain-basement trinkets and low-end electronics for their loved ones at 3 a.m. on Black Friday at their nearest SuperTarget, hardcore music geeks will be sleeping in.
Felt up
Puppets are an integral part of the ongoing spectacle that is Quintron and Miss Pussycat, who make art rock with strings attached.
Tusk’s task
It’s a noble pursuit for Black Tusk, really: Fully commit to brewing a blend of swamp metal.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Black Tusk
7 p.m. Monday
The Chameleon Room
3034 N. Portland
ticketstorm.com
537-8136
$10-$13
Classic Albums: Peter Gabriel: So
The whole story behind the music, now ‘In Your Eyes.’
Documentary
Rod Lott
Peter Gabriel’s 1986 album, So, found the former Genesis vocalist at his commercial and critical peak. Now, to celebrate its 25th anniversary, it’s not only been reissued in a three-disc box set, but is the subject of the Classic Albums documentary series.
The Flaming Lips — Playing Hide and Seek with the Ghosts of Dawn
Rock
Louis Fowler
The Flaming Lips’ latest cover album, Playing Hide and Seek with the Ghosts of Dawn, is a song-by-song remake of King Crimson’s 1969 classic, In the Court of the Crimson King. Naturally, it’s only available on hard-to-get, limited-edition colored vinyl.
Sam I am
With her brand-new album, ‘Kid Face,’ Shawnee-born Americana artist Samantha Crain decided to write what she knew: herself.
Music
Zach Hale
Samantha Crain with Parker Millsap
8 p.m. Saturday
The Blue Door
2805 N. McKinley
bluedoorokc.com
524-0738
$15-$20
